armchair
/ˈɑɹmt͡ʃɛɚ/ adjectif C2En français : de salon, en chambre
- Remote from actual involvement (including cases where a person has retired from previously active involvement). · armchair travels· These days I'm an armchair detective.
- Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports; relating to such advice. · He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal blog.· After the game, the armchair quarterbacks talked about what they would have done differently to win.
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I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.
On the third night after Brunton’s disappearance, the nurse, finding her patient sleeping nicely, had dropped into a nap in the armchair, when she woke in the early morning to find the bed empty, the window open, and no signs of the invalid.
My friend hardly glanced up as I entered, and I, seeing that his investigation must be of importance, seated myself in an armchair and waited.
Then he fell back into an armchair so limp and exhausted with his own emotions that we had to pour brandy down his throat to keep him from fainting.
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